On reaching the 200+ day of the Trump presidency

On reaching the 200+ day of the Trump presidency

September 24, 2017

Each time a day or a month chronicles President Trump's term, drastic changes abound at a rate faster than the White House is capable of issuing timely announcements.
Democrats may have long been united against the 45th president, but the number of key Republicans publicly opposing...

Each time a day or a month chronicles President Trump’s term, drastic changes abound at a rate faster than the White House is capable of issuing timely announcements.

Democrats may have long been united against the 45th president, but the number of key Republicans publicly opposing him prominently is evidently getting larger.

Reviewing what news gathering has revealed: when Trump vehemently made emphatic that his attorney general should resign, his co-Republicans commenced their drive zeroing in on virtual opposition of the president’s declaration.

Then, there was the highly-awaited Obamacare repeal bill, still to be accomplished, a decided minus on the Trump ledger which was supposed to be one of its premier changes, widely announced and covered at the presidential campaign rallies.

What came next was the Trump decision in reference to his policy on transgender individuals in the military. Thus far, the military has not implemented the aforementioned policy at all, although Trump has repeated it in a number of his pronouncements.

As badly as Trump wishes the Russia investigations to depart from the scene, ironically, it was a Republican committee chairman who went ahead. He subpoenaed Trump’s former campaign chief to testify in the investigation.

Evidently, Trump has not stifled the voice of some Republicans who, at the start of his administration, kept their opinions private, which indicated they wanted to keep their party’s base away from revolt.

From the views of observers who claim they were waiting for proper action, the notion that Republicans have feared to cross the traditional lines in terms of Trumpism, no longer applies as the days go on.

Some Republicans still proceed to keep their views, as they claim they adhere deeply to established norms when it comes to party loyalty.

Yet, the month of August loomed differently. Most of the ‘quiet’ Republicans joined the group who considered it “publicly acceptable” for them to rebuke their sitting president, resorted to sound off despite what they had known: their attitude could unleash one or more of those all-too-familiar Twitter denunciations by Trump himself.

A day after reluctantly signing Russian sanctions, Trump continued to blame Congress for “bad US-Russia relations.”

The planned ouster of Attorney General Jeff Sessions which Trump aired publicly has not prospered at all . Trump’s critics have been vocal: Trump chose the wrong fight. In spite of Trump’s repeated, even humiliating efforts to force the Sessions resignation became fruitless. The attorney general stood his ground. Of course, it was up to Trump to fire Sessions outright. It has not happened at all.

Chuck Grassley, the Senate Judiciary Chairman stated that if Trump wanted to oust Sessions, he should understand that the committee would not hold confirmation hearings for a new attorney general in 2017.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell suggested that if Trump entertained the thought that he could just fire Sessions and make a recess appointment for a new attorney general, then the Senate would not recess.

All members of the US populace continue to wonder how the presidency will proceed to unfold.

Elections of Year 2018 are vigorously awaited.

The Trump policy on immigration will be highly tested. And so will other orders that bear the Trump signature.

What President Trump said: “I am the world’s greatest person that does not want to let people into the country,” will need a vast array of prompt action from a great many countries whose native daughters and sons contributed immensely to the technical growth of America.

US Senator Jeff Flake (R-Arizona) has not desisted in his criticism of Trump: “My party is in denial about Donald Trump. We created him, and now we’re rationalizing him. When will it stop?”